Emmalea Russo is a writer, astrologer, and teacher. Her first novel, Vivienne, was published by Arcade in September 2024. Her books of poetry are G (2018), Wave Archive (2019), Confetti (2022), and Magenta (2023). Recent poems and essays have appeared in Artforum, BOMB, Spike Art Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Compact, Granta, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has been a writer in residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York and 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles and a visiting critic at Parsons School of Design and The Art Institute of Cincinnati. She has taught courses on poetry, philosophy, and art at various institutions including Saint Peters University, Northeastern University, The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, and GCAS. Her books have been reviewed in The Chicago Review, The Yale Review, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. She keeps a substack newsletter, Cosmic Edges, and teaches classes on literature, art, and the occult. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore.

CONTACT: emmalearusso@gmail.com